JOHN B. WEBER PLEADS FOR THE RUSSIAN JEW.; He Tells the Jewish Chautauqua Only Relief Will Be the Jews' Exodus from Russia or Abandonment of Present Laws.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., July 12 -- John B. Weber, ex-Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York and Chairman of the special commission authorized by Congress in 1888 to visit Europe and investigate the causes inciting immigration to the United States, spoke here to-day before the Jewish Chautauqua on "The Status of the Jew in Russia." View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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